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Two new cameras (sort of?)

Hi!

Work is stressful and sleep is hard to find, but I have two new cameras to play with. The first was given to me by my boss's boss, who found he hadn't touched it in twenty or more years and figured I might have some fun with it. It's a Canon T70:

As you can see, it's one of the most special looking cameras Canon has made. As the Camerapedia link above mentions, it won design awards in 1984, which is not a good thing. However, it has good glass, a self-timer and an auto-winder so I imagine I'll have plenty of fun with it. It's also my first 35mm in 8 or 9 years, meaning I can finally use up all the expired film that has been collecting and that I have been carrying around from apartment to apartment over the past decade. I'm going to try to catch the first snowfall on it. Or, rather, with it.

I found Camera #2 at Value Village while looking for an awful Christmas sweater. It's a Kodak disposable, w/ flash:

This camera is not remarkable in any way, except in one way: the film is half exposed. Some curious person took 15-20 photos with this thing before giving it to Value Village for some curiouser person to find. Is it full of vacation photos? Is it part of an Urban Prankster project? Is it simply broken? Is it, well, incriminating? I suppose I'll find out. The folks at West Camera are patient and understanding, and I'm confident I can explain to them the circumstances surrounding this camera and why I must have it developed and that I'm only truly responsible for exposures twenty through thirty-six. As long as cops aren't surrounding the place when I go to pick up the scans I'll post the results on Flickr. I'll also give some sort of special Christmas present to anyone with a guess that's even vaguely correct.

That's all.